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Jack Iwata Collection

Jack Iwata - Building Barracks in Manzanar

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Published: July 24, 2007 Modified: April 11, 2025
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1 b&w; image taken at Manzanar concentration camp in California. Exterior shot of a barrack being built. Outside framework and walls are up, roof is missing. 2 men are working inside barrack. 4 men are looking at work from outside. Sign in front of barrack reads: Blk 1, Bldg 1.

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H: 7 3/4 in, W: 9 1/2 in

Manzanar, Calif., ca. 1942

(93.102.194)

Gift of Jack and Peggy Iwata

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Jack Iwata was born in Seattle, Washington, but grew up in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. He returned to the United States when he was 16 years old, and attended Whittier College in Whittier, California. Jack began to work with famous ph…
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